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washington cannot solve all the problems. i know you want people to come on the air and say that happy days are here again. when i look at debt, that giant sucking sound of finances, it is tragic that we have record unemployment at a time when we also have a record deficit and a record debt. we are a global economy and that will not change. we will continue to buy from china and india if they can sell to us for less. items are going to be cheaper across the globe. how do you make america more competitive? one of the projects i have enjoyed the most is education. i think the focal point, to me, in 2011, a plan to do a lot of work on education issues. if we can hold educators accountable, if we can demand discipline among students, if we can reward those who do better and still help those at the bottom come up, we can make such a difference. if our school system continues to fail our kids, i cannot find students to work for me because they cannot write well enough. it may not even be their fault, but something went wrong. i thi
washington cannot solve all the problems. i know you want people to come on the air and say that happy days are here again. when i look at debt, that giant sucking sound of finances, it is tragic that we have record unemployment at a time when we also have a record deficit and a record debt. we are a global economy and that will not change. we will continue to buy from china and india if they can sell to us for less. items are going to be cheaper across the globe. how do you make america more...
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"washington journal" is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] ♪ ♪ in the news at this hour, the founder of wikileaks has been arrested on a warrant. today is the 69th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor in hawaii. and the tax-cut deal is making news all over the place. obama sent biden to capitol hill today to sell the tax deal to angry democrats. we want to get your reaction to what we heard the president announced last night. front-page news, everywhere we are looking this morning, "philadelphia inquirer" here is the headline. they are stressing that democrats are not happy about all of this. here is the front page of the "washington times" this morning. and in the "new york post", here was the headline with the big question mark. let us get to some of the details. if you have not caught up on this, the agreement -- that the president reached with republicans is a tax cut with everyone for a couple of more years. it will e
"washington journal" is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] ♪ ♪ in the news at this hour, the founder of wikileaks has been arrested on a warrant. today is the 69th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor in hawaii. and the tax-cut deal is making news all over the place. obama sent biden to capitol hill today to sell the tax deal to angry democrats. we want to get your reaction to what we heard...
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"washington journal" continues. host: a veteran of washington, d.c. politics. this report has been delayed, why? guest: the whole process has been mismanaged. we had many months to do this report. we were supposed to get a draft of the report in april. we did not get in the draft until late november. the piece is about 450 printed pages. it is complex stuff. we, the republicans, have not to an opportunity with review its -- an opportunity to review it. we have not seen the whole report except in the last few days. it makes it almost impossible for us to have a reply to the position that the majority is taking here. host: one of the many stories of what happened is that the competing narrative of the republicans and the democrats made it difficult to have bipartisanship on this. can there be bipartisanship on what happened on wall street or are there competing narrative? guest: there are competing narratives. these are important questions because they determine how the government will react to things in the future or whether there will be another financial crisi
"washington journal" continues. host: a veteran of washington, d.c. politics. this report has been delayed, why? guest: the whole process has been mismanaged. we had many months to do this report. we were supposed to get a draft of the report in april. we did not get in the draft until late november. the piece is about 450 printed pages. it is complex stuff. we, the republicans, have not to an opportunity with review its -- an opportunity to review it. we have not seen the whole...
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in washington d.c. defense secretary gates, joint chiefs mike mullen, and the co authors backing the appeal of don't ask, don't tell, are testifying before the armed services committee. and on friday, the committee will hear from the top brass of the army, navy, air force and marines. once the services committee hearings are over, the spotlight. -- returns to senate majority leader harry reid who will decide how the issue will move forward. it is under way live on c-span3 television and c-span radio will join it in a moment. california congresswoman under investigation by the house ethics committee tore into the committee yesterday, demanding to know why it secretly put two investigators working on her case on administrative leave on the same day it announced a postponement of the hearing. the committee's job be the chief counsel and lead attorney in this case -- deputy chief counsel and lead attorney in this case against maxine waters and another member were put on leave 10 days before the scheduled he
in washington d.c. defense secretary gates, joint chiefs mike mullen, and the co authors backing the appeal of don't ask, don't tell, are testifying before the armed services committee. and on friday, the committee will hear from the top brass of the army, navy, air force and marines. once the services committee hearings are over, the spotlight. -- returns to senate majority leader harry reid who will decide how the issue will move forward. it is under way live on c-span3 television and c-span...
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c-span of video library, washington your way. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest is congressman mike coffman, republican of colorado and member of the armed services committee here to talk about afghanistan. in "the post" a preview the president's report and they say were review site strides, less confident and afghan governments. what you looking for? guest: where we are at right now -- real concerns that we in fact -- we are making progress on the ground militarily, but i think what the report so far identifies, although the final one will not be out until tomorrow, is clearly that the government's peace is lacking and we are able to take ground, old ground, but we can't transfer because they don't have the capacity right down to do that government's peace. that is a significant. what is going to be the strategy going forward, i think that will be the key question. host: let us pose that question to you, what should the strategy be going forward? guest: i think we have a strategy that is unrealistic right now. i think it is two heavily dependent
c-span of video library, washington your way. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest is congressman mike coffman, republican of colorado and member of the armed services committee here to talk about afghanistan. in "the post" a preview the president's report and they say were review site strides, less confident and afghan governments. what you looking for? guest: where we are at right now -- real concerns that we in fact -- we are making progress on the...
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the washington -- "the washington times" ways in this morning. they say -- "this is now the president's gimmick." host: "usa today" says that the tax bill shows that the party can compromise. negotiated between the white house, democrats, and congressional republicans. republican line, you are next. good morning. you are on the air. caller: i am calling because i have a complaint against how you except your calls. now, do not cut me off. you never cut of democrats. you always let them rattle on and on. i sit here every morning and i cannot take it anymore. i have made notes of how many calls get through from republicans and how many democrats. you have republicans up there. each month you have republicans on the top. then the next month you have the democrats on the top. but you never start out with their republican caller. it is always the democrats. democrats have taken over this station. i have been a fan of the c-span audience for a long time. it is discouraging to me how the democrats are all getting in and complaining against my party. nobo
the washington -- "the washington times" ways in this morning. they say -- "this is now the president's gimmick." host: "usa today" says that the tax bill shows that the party can compromise. negotiated between the white house, democrats, and congressional republicans. republican line, you are next. good morning. you are on the air. caller: i am calling because i have a complaint against how you except your calls. now, do not cut me off. you never cut of democrats....
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it is washington, your way. washington your way. in about 45 minutes, the census bureau director, the president of the alzheimer's foundation of america, and a look at the economic forecast with an economist with the international council of stopping centers -- council of shopping centers. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] host: majority leader harry reid, "washington post" and "bloomberg news" declared it one of the most productive in decades. we will look at the 111 congress and what it produced and what it didn't do as well. what do you think? is the 111 congress the most productive in a long time? what do you think about the past two years in congress? you can also send us a tweet or an e-mail. here is bloomberg news from yesterday. no congress since the 1960's makes as much law affecting the most americans as the 111. how ever history judges the 535 men and women and the house and senate, but thing is certain -- the 111 congress made more law affect
it is washington, your way. washington your way. in about 45 minutes, the census bureau director, the president of the alzheimer's foundation of america, and a look at the economic forecast with an economist with the international council of stopping centers -- council of shopping centers. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] host: majority leader harry reid, "washington post" and "bloomberg news"...
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in the end, -- when i am in washington, i see washington media, i listen to washington radio, but i do not represent washington, and i do not think my constituents want me to represent washington. i cannot represent them if i am never home. i think we need bigger breaks. when we are in washington, the there for longer periods of time, more time to get stuff done, but then have more full weeks where we are back in the districts to talk to our constituents, listen to our constituents, and remember that is where we live. otherwise, we will not represent where we come from. host: next phone call from st. charles, missouri. democrat line. caller: you seem like a nice man but i have a problem with your party. it seems you all are not interested in governing, only turning it over to the private sector. they want everything in private hands, medicaid, medicare advantage. it costs them another 17% for them to administer the program. if the republicans were interested in lowering the deficit, they would eliminate tax cuts for the rich. over $700 billion, which we borrowed from china, is the cost
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welcome to washington at christmas. host: when is the debate on this on the bus going to happen in the senate, first? guest: i do not think is going to happen until next week. host: so, the senate has to pass something to keep the government legally founded saturday -- legally funded saturday night. guest: my understanding is that they have to pass something by saturday night. if they pass the omnibus and it does not pass the house, it does not go into effect. host: the senate is working on the omnibus. the guest: it is right. if the senate passes anything other than the house passed cr, then it has to go back to chambers. any option that they take other than a house bill requires yet another vote in the house. we are all kind of scratching our heads. when is it going to get done? they do plan to leave. the holidays are approaching. host: this explanation of, hopefully, what is going on up there on the hill. now, to get to the omnibus, the senate on the bus, 6600 your marks from $8 billion in a $1.1 trillion bill, who h
welcome to washington at christmas. host: when is the debate on this on the bus going to happen in the senate, first? guest: i do not think is going to happen until next week. host: so, the senate has to pass something to keep the government legally founded saturday -- legally funded saturday night. guest: my understanding is that they have to pass something by saturday night. if they pass the omnibus and it does not pass the house, it does not go into effect. host: the senate is working on the...
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it's washington your way. host: we want to welcome damian poll eta who covers issues for the "wall street journal." guest: thank you for having me. host: i want to talk about the debt and deficit commission but let's first talk about the economic condition. your reaction. guest: i think a lot of people felt the economy was on a trajectory. the last couple months the unemployment data had been positive and yesterday was a reality checks for folks that we're not out of the woods. it's almost like we're sort of inching back up towards 10%. and with all the economic indicators we have that we go through each month, this is the one that really catch it is nation's attention. the unemployment rate is the one that can drive the polls, it's the one that the politicians pay the most attention to. so it wasn't good news for sure. i guess probably take a while for us to know how bad the news was. host: our guest tomorrow morning on c-span's "newsmakers" program which airs at 10:00 eastern time, here's an excerpt from the
it's washington your way. host: we want to welcome damian poll eta who covers issues for the "wall street journal." guest: thank you for having me. host: i want to talk about the debt and deficit commission but let's first talk about the economic condition. your reaction. guest: i think a lot of people felt the economy was on a trajectory. the last couple months the unemployment data had been positive and yesterday was a reality checks for folks that we're not out of the woods. it's...
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we do not need one more washington center, washington driven agenda. we need a citizen-focused and citizen-generated agenda. that's what we will try to provide the arena for. guest: about what the caller said about cable news, there's obviously a big food fight atmosphere to a lot of people. i worry a lot more, not about the 3 million people or 5 million people who watch a lot of cable tv and get too much slanted political information -- i worry about the 125 million people who get much less political information than their parents and grandparents did. we are moving toward a world in which the best informed americans are so much more informed than they were a generation ago, but many americans are much worse informed. it's that kind of information oligarchy that is one of the powerful and destructive forces in american politics. if you do not know what is going on, you will be taking advantage of. that's the backdrop to the financial crisis. all kinds of decisions were made that were too technical and too boring for people to follow. trillions of doll
we do not need one more washington center, washington driven agenda. we need a citizen-focused and citizen-generated agenda. that's what we will try to provide the arena for. guest: about what the caller said about cable news, there's obviously a big food fight atmosphere to a lot of people. i worry a lot more, not about the 3 million people or 5 million people who watch a lot of cable tv and get too much slanted political information -- i worry about the 125 million people who get much less...
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washington your way. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome michael auslin from the american enterprise institute, his focus is foreign and defense policy and our focus is what is happening along the korean peninsula. tensions continue to rise in the attacks earlier this year by north korea. assess the situation. guest: i think what we are seeing is a combination of normal north korean actions but also the possibility we are entering into a very turbulent period because of the potential regime change in north korea. what we usually see in north korea is that there are out reaches on the part of north korea to try to get negotiating partners in the united states and japan and south korea back to the six-party talks, trying to get concessions. when that doesn't happen, usually there is a provocation on the north's part or sometimes the provocation comes first, it in which case they expect washington, seoul, tokyo would try -- some concession to get back to the six-party talks. that is what we have been seeing happening a
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it is washington your way. "washington journal" continues. host: we have been looking at organic food and the prices we pay. we began with food safety legislation and we focus on small farmers and a stable food movement and we looked at childhood nutrition legislation yesterday. today we want to focus on organic food. we welcome christine bushway, thank you for being with us. what is organic food and what are we paying for? guest: it is very much in the news these days. it is a very big and growing area. people refer to it as a trend but in actuality, organic food is produced the way our great- grandparents' produced food. we are going back to the old ways of producing food. it is produced without pesticides and in the case of livestock, no antibiotics, no sludge, no synthetic fertilizers. those things are not used in organic production. host: the numbers of organic food sales have grown. about 4% of total u.s. food sales. sales of organic fruits and vegetables are projected to grow 13% yearly by 7%. guest: it is very much growing. we tend to
it is washington your way. "washington journal" continues. host: we have been looking at organic food and the prices we pay. we began with food safety legislation and we focus on small farmers and a stable food movement and we looked at childhood nutrition legislation yesterday. today we want to focus on organic food. we welcome christine bushway, thank you for being with us. what is organic food and what are we paying for? guest: it is very much in the news these days. it is a very...
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this is "washington journal." [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] host: good morning, and welcome to "washington journal." with just a couple more days left in the year it is a time of reflection on the year past and also the decade that is passing by. "the philadelphia inquirer has -- "the philadelphia inquirer" has a story about the internet. our question is, how has the internet change your life in the past decade? you can also e-mail us -- and we are on twitter -- how it has changed your life in the past decade or how it has not. looking at the peace in "the philadelphia inquirer." now those on-line who used to be consumers on the internet now our producers. so everyone has a chance to have their say. our question to you is, how has the internet changed your life? 10 years ago, they report that the web was -- email was cool. 10 years ago, it march 2000, less than 5% surveyed had broadband service. let's hear from bill, democratic line
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"washington journal" continues. host: sally quinn is with us this morning, founder of "on faith," interactive forum on washingtonpost.com, celebrating five years. i wanted to begin with why did you begin this discussion and have you accomplished what you set out to achieve? guest: actually, we just celebrated our fourth anniversary. one more year to go and then we are taking -- [laughter] i sort of backed into it as a journalist. i began to see that there were so many stories that involve religion that i didn't think that we were covering in the paper. i just didn't think we were covering religion. if you look at "washington de" or yesterday or a before, we have front-page stories on religion almost every day. something. it just talking about ks in the military. that has been a religious issue. the marriage is a religious issue. abortion. national politics, foreign- policy. and it just seems to me there was this whole large issue that we were not addressing. so i started writing memos and saying, i really think we o
"washington journal" continues. host: sally quinn is with us this morning, founder of "on faith," interactive forum on washingtonpost.com, celebrating five years. i wanted to begin with why did you begin this discussion and have you accomplished what you set out to achieve? guest: actually, we just celebrated our fourth anniversary. one more year to go and then we are taking -- [laughter] i sort of backed into it as a journalist. i began to see that there were so many...
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"washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome bob cavnar, author of this new book "disaster on the horizon" about the story of the deep water well blowout. from what i've read in the book, you've done a lot of different jobs in the industry. why write this book? guest: i felt like i could add to the conversation about the deep water well blowout. most people did not even realize that we drilled in deep water. when this disaster happened, a lot of the media coverage was it your superficial or just -- was peter superficial or just not understanding what was going on. i felt like someone in the industry needed to write about the risks -- what actually happened and the risks of drilling in deep water. host: and what are they? guest: margin of error in deepwater is razor-thin. most people do not realize that. we are in deep water because we have had for years of no comprehensive energy policy. we have been importing so much oil, over 60% of our daily use from overseas. most of which is from companies that hate
"washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome bob cavnar, author of this new book "disaster on the horizon" about the story of the deep water well blowout. from what i've read in the book, you've done a lot of different jobs in the industry. why write this book? guest: i felt like i could add to the conversation about the deep water well blowout. most people did not even realize that we drilled in deep water. when this disaster happened, a lot of the media...
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why increase the number of politicians in washington when washington is so dysfunctional? so i don't think we will see that happening anytime soon. massachusetts is going to be a thorny state. democrats have all 10 seats in massachusetts, including the 10th district where the caller is from. host: david wasserman from the cook political report, thank you for being on the program. in 45 minutes, we will be talking about the start treaty. after the break, we will be talking with ray walser of the heritage foundation to talk about the impact of drug violence on the economy. you are watching the "washington journal." today is december 22, 2010. >> listen to historic supreme court cases on c-span radio. >> with the exception of the cross, the nativity scene is one of the most powerful religious symbols in this country and certainly one of the most christian symbols in this country. >> listen to the argument on c- span radio. you are watching c-span, bringing you politics and public affairs every morning on "washington journal." connecting you to elected officials, policy makers
why increase the number of politicians in washington when washington is so dysfunctional? so i don't think we will see that happening anytime soon. massachusetts is going to be a thorny state. democrats have all 10 seats in massachusetts, including the 10th district where the caller is from. host: david wasserman from the cook political report, thank you for being on the program. in 45 minutes, we will be talking about the start treaty. after the break, we will be talking with ray walser of the...
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and because i live in washington d.c. and we are not a state and all those the kings, we are not negligible off for the nyden -- all of those good things, we are not eligible for the 99. host: i need to interrupt you because so many people want to talk this morning. so, your own experience as you feeling what way about what happened in washington caller: -- in washington? caller: because i have a limited amount of time, i planned for this hamas. i save my money because i knew my -- are planned for this. i save my money to lend you my benefits for going to run out. it is so ridiculous -- i saved my money because i knew my benefits were going to run out. it is so ridiculous, the amount of money. they get so caught up in what the polls say, and opinion pieces and they forget what spurred them to want to be in the congress and the first place. host: we have to move on. joyce is watching in ste. rahm, oregon. -- been at sweet home, oregon. of the first, i'm tired earmarks. $1 billion is now the new million and it is ridiculous
and because i live in washington d.c. and we are not a state and all those the kings, we are not negligible off for the nyden -- all of those good things, we are not eligible for the 99. host: i need to interrupt you because so many people want to talk this morning. so, your own experience as you feeling what way about what happened in washington caller: -- in washington? caller: because i have a limited amount of time, i planned for this hamas. i save my money because i knew my -- are planned...